Monday, October 10, 2011

Language to Live by

Life is not either/or, black/white, all/nothing. Learning to see things as helpful/not helpful vs all good/all bad helped me to heal. I found an empowering solution in understanding that the language I used could help me feel empowered or perpetuate that sense powerlessness where I felt stuck and frozen. Using my words helped me to create the power that would empower me to create the change that changed my life.

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We do not need to "change"; we need to "grow" and when we grow...we change. ~SusanKs 10/21/12

To change my life? I had to engage with learning to create change consciously; this is not a passive process. ~SusanKs 10/21/12

Its not about being perfect - its about knowing I'm perfect as I am. ~Sks 2012

To create your own "best lifle" begin by asking "what do I like and not like". Then purpose to be true to your truth. ~sks Mar. 2012

In seeking to live beyond survival - the first step was to choose this path. The second step was to take the first step over and over and over. ~ Susan Oct. 2010

"Being willing to become aware of one's own thoughts, emotions and physical being is the beginning of finding ones own power." ~zebism

"Knowledge is the beginning of the truth that sets me free - every time." ~Susan via "A Journey"

“Insight comes from new information that leads us to the awareness that will empower us to create our own change.” ~ HoZ's via @zebraspolkadots

When I began to see life as my "teacher" instead of my "problem" I became the student who was "ready". ~zebism

"When my focus became where I wanted to go instead of where I hated being....I arrived at my destination." ~zebism

Even the greatest suffered...

Great people who have done great things did not have to be perfect before they could do great things. Van Gough cut off his ear and quite often great artists have been thought to be "unbalanced" or "mad" in their creativity.

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I survived a life of trauma then I survived and escaped psychiatry and the health care that cost me my health. I am an avid learner and lover of knowledge. Today I share the learnings that became the truths that set me free and on a path to knowing how to create my "best life".

My Version of the poem by Patrick Overton

When I came to the edge of all the light that I had and I had to take a step into the darkness of the unknown, I truly believed that one of two things would happen to me; either there would be something to stand on, or, I would be taught how to fly.

And as I stood at the edge of that mountain, trembling in fear, tears streaming down my face, I leaned into the wind...